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by nirvana 14y ago
For what its worth, I don't think we've seen actual conservatives in power for 30 years either. neo-conservatism isn't very conservative at all-- for instance, conservatives really wouldn't care about gay marriage. opposing it goes against
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by nirvana 14y ago
Two point: 1. He made no arguments, he just asserted a different conclusion. Which is the equivalent of saying "you're wrong, jackass!" Is that not ad hominem? "Your wrong" is not "substantial issues with the argument itself". (and why w
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by nirvana 14y ago
I love it when the down vote brigade forgets that you can't down vote people who are replying to you and tells you to stop down voting people! You have still failed to provide a single quote from the constitution that supports your position
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by nirvana 14y ago
Yes, Maybury v Madison contained a criminal action on the part of the supreme court where they usurped power that did not belong to them, under the constitution, and where they correctly ruled that unconstitutional laws are invalid the mome
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by nirvana 14y ago
Right- powers can be added by amendment, for instance the power to levy an income tax as an example. (which shows the "you have to pay your taxes" swipe for what it is.) I'd be satisfied with a quote from any of the enumerated powers or an
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by nirvana 14y ago
Well, I make arguments. Here, in fact, I was really asking people for ideas! I wasn't even disagreeing with anyone. Its just that, because I like Apple (and that's against the HN consensual ideology) and I'm a libertarian (again frowned u
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by nirvana 14y ago
I used it correctly and quoted the definition from wikipedia to show I was using it correctly.
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by nirvana 14y ago
We're not talking about mistakes. We're talking about crimes. Under federal law, enforcing any laws that are not constitutionally enacted by federal employees, while armed, is a felony. This makes every TSA agent who is armed a felon. Th
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by nirvana 14y ago
>I think criminalization of marijuana is terrible policy. But is it unconstitutional? The Constitution provided a framework within which the citizens of the US were able to elect representatives who passed laws that outlawed marijuana.
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by nirvana 14y ago
>I believe I've shown this to be black-and-white, read-the-document wrong. No you haven't. You provided two quotes from the constitution, referring to the limited powers I was talking about, and thus your quotes completely support my po
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by nirvana 14y ago
If your app has a particular market of enthusiasts (e.g.: a pet grooming app, for instance) you could seek out forums of those people and participate in those forums (constructively) while having a link to your site in your signature (if th
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by nirvana 14y ago
The designer-- my cofounder-- is someone I've known for over a year, who had an interest in being a designer but wasn't "really" a designer at that point. We sought an external person who was a "real designer" to do the icon, but they didn
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by nirvana 14y ago
Pure ad hominem[1], also linking to a 140 day old previous thread where, instead of responding to my argument, you also engaged in ad hominem. You really think HN readers are so dull brained that you need to warn them about me, lest they b
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by nirvana 14y ago
I wonder how they are going to enforce this law on cryptographically secure communication software written by some anonymous group and released as open source software out on the net? I guess being able to pin the maintainer of the github
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by nirvana 14y ago
You're right and this is true about everything the government does. There will always be health problems. There will always be "poor" people. There will always be drugs, or pornography or rude children or whatever excuse is currently con
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by nirvana 14y ago
All to varying degrees of success based on how well we executed the points I tried to highlight. I picked our oldest app as the example, because I frankly expected that after a year it would have died out, and now after 2 years and a year
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by nirvana 14y ago
Yes. Complete waste of time. Fostering relationships with bloggers might be useful. But the advertising networks, so far, no success. I'm not saying it can't work, it just didn't work for us. The main reason is that ads (google or mobile)
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by nirvana 14y ago
This article is silly. The idea that you can't make any money from an App if you aren't in the top of the charts is false. One of my apps has only occasionally and then briefly, broken the top 200 in the US in its CATEGORY. (So nowhere near
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by nirvana 14y ago
>you might also want to read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem Did you read that page? "An ad hominem (Latin for "to the man" or "to the person"), short for argumentum ad hominem, is an attempt to negate the truth of a claim b
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by nirvana 14y ago
At first I thought this was a non-sequitor, but I see now you are trying to make the argument that my claim that there is no enumerated authorization for police is silly, because the constitution doesn't enumerate other things-- like the Ai
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by nirvana 14y ago
I hope you're right and I was meaning to find common ground with the perceived majority to avoid the personal attacks I've gotten in the past (it didn't work, see the top voted response to me.) I apologize to any non-liberals who feel the
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by nirvana 14y ago
There's this pattern I've noticed, whenever I make an argument on HN and cite the constitution, people respond by characterizing me, rather than responding to my arguments. And its always the top voted response. Yuck. >the Constitution
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by nirvana 14y ago
Well it would be trivial to then seize Dajza2.com as well, but they could easily get Daj.za or something else and use that-- which would be much harder to seize. However the kim dotcom issue shows that even being located in another country,
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by nirvana 14y ago
Regarding the shopping, the conflict of interest is astounding. Go after the guy with the money, because if you can make something stick, you get to steal the money, and keep it for yourself. Judges are incentivized to sign these asset for
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by nirvana 14y ago
There's no provision in the constitution for stealing property that you think is involved in a crime (only for taking evidence of a crime. They could collect evidence without taking the domain, that is completely unnecessary.) Actually, the
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by nirvana 14y ago
This is a good point. Government jobs are very arbitrary this way (mainly because government is embedded in the college industry.) But its a filter often applied when looking at immigrants. Its a shame, really, because someone with a decad
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by nirvana 14y ago
I think either you were dealing with really prejudiced people, or you were turning them off in some way and they were using the degree as an excuse because they couldn't mention the real answer.... or your resume was just too thin. No doubt
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by nirvana 14y ago
My point is this: Getting a job for $50k+ is easy when you've got four years of development experience behind you. That puts you ahead of the people just out of school. I can't speak about non-engineering professions. Its quite possible t
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by nirvana 14y ago
The thing is, you take two people from the same graduating class and look at them four years later, one who went to college and the other who worked, and they won't be equally competent. One will be a new graduate and one will have 4 years
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by nirvana 14y ago
If they got Masters or MBAs then they are even further behind and have even more to unlearn before they can be productive. Those people are earning less and are 4-6 years behind you on the advancement curve. The slope of that curve depends

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